Getting my head around Rails

by Alistair

Ruby on Rails is an elegant, compact and fun way to build web applications. Unfortunately, many gotchas await the new programmer. Now that I have a few rails projects under my belt, here’s my shot at sparing you the suffering I experienced when first getting started.

And if you want your mind blown, download and watch the following video:

So, time for me to brush up on my Ruby and get my head around Rails. Which is all well and good, but I’ve just discovered I must have eBay-ed my copy of the Pickaxe book a couple of years ago, thinking I’d never need it again. Lesson learned: I will never part with another computing text again.

About

I'm a software developer working in the online gaming industry. Previously I've completed PhD study and been employed as a sessional lecturer at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and more recently spent 2.5 years as a lecturer at EIT Hawke's Bay.

I currently live in Brisbane, Australia, where I've been very happy to discover that there's no such thing as winter.